Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Bird Island Passage, Strangford Lough.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830804/01 Date: 1983-08-04 GPS: 54.47667,-5.57533. Depth: -23.0 to -24.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Mud plain with very abundant shell debris. Antedon; Thyone and Sagartia all common.

Species list (24 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Amphilectus fucorum	Epizoanthus couchii	Pagurus bernhardus	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Asterias rubens
Eurypon coronula	Mycale macilenta	Cylista elegans	Inachus dorsettensis	Buccinum undatum	Leptasterias muelleri
Polymastia boletiformis	Polymastia inflata	CRUSTACEA	Macropodia rostrata	Aequipecten opercularis	Thyone fusus
Polymastia penicillus	CNIDARIA	Balanus crenatus	Polybius depurator	ECHINODERMATA	PISCES
Suberites ficus	Obelia dichotoma	Crangon crangon	MOLLUSCA	Antedon bifida	Pomatoschistus pictus

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